In her reflective poem “Is This Justice”, QuratUlAin Shahid gives voice to the pain, strength, and resilience of persons with psychosocial disabilities who are too often seen through lens of pity instead of rights and equity. #WhatWENeed is not sympathy, it’s justice, trust, and recognition of our human rights as...

How are we reclaiming our rights? How are we redefining support? How are we ensuring that care never means control? For #WhatWeNeed 2025, Tina Minkowitz reflects on what a true human rights–based care and support agenda should look like. She challenges systems that still allow involuntary treatment and institutionalization, insisting...

How are we resisting harm? How are we rising from our struggles? How are we building our communities? How are we reimagining possibilities? For #WhatWENeed 2025, Elizabeth Ombati reflects on these questions.Through her words, she writes about the everyday acts of courage and care that shape our movement, from resisting...

Pathways to Inclusive Communities: Navigating the Practice of Community Inclusion for Disability Inclusive Development TCI Plenary, Multistakeholder, and Partnership Development Meeting November 16-18, 2024Bangkok, Thailand Reflections from the TCI Plenary TCI Global conducted its plenary conference & multistakeholder and partnership development meeting on November 16-18, 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand. The...

About CIC-K and TCI’s #WhatWENeed campaign Championing for Inclusive Communities in Kenya (CIC-K) is a membership, non-governmental, not-for-profit organization registered as an NGO in Kenya since 2022. CIC-K’s mandate is to promote human rights-based advocacy on community inclusion of mental health psychosocial support services for persons with psychosocial disability. CIC-K...

Solidarity, Emotional Awareness, Social Justice and Compassion: Insights from The Red Door’s Community Mental Health Program in India By Pranami Tamuli The Red Door’s Mental Health & Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) interventions with young women and girls from structurally excluded communities in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh have been extremely...

Comprehensive Legal Reform Aligned with Human Rights Standards – In Bangladesh and Beyond

Submissions by TCI’s Member from Liberation (UK) and it’s members

On the edge of society Existing in a kind of limbo Between acceptance and lunacy Outside banal normality Strange thoughts indeed Like icicles melting Then falling and crashing Only to form again In the cold of night Figments of mind’s eye Anonymous assailants They’ve stopped at present All is silent....

Subject: Emdr: A Journey to my-self I found my face again… i’d lost her for a while, unseen through pinched lips and visible cracks in my covering and a sadness ever present in the schema. I found her while looking through the past, shining a green light, a beacon pulling...

REMISI (Indonesia Revolution and Education for Social Inclusion) is an organization that advocates for the rights of youth with psychosocial disabilities in Indonesia. Their blog highlights the urgent need for peer support groups, inclusive workplaces, and fair representation in policy-making to create a more inclusive society for Young persons with...

By Korean Disability Forum “FootAct” and “Deinstitutionalization Coalition of Korea” have been leading the cross-disability DI movement in South Korea, especially with “Deinstitutionalization Coalition of Korea” being the first coalition mainly consisted of members who are survivors of institutionalization themselves. In 2024, they wrote a declaration of DI rights and...